Bung-splitter.



J. W. FAIRBANKS.

BUNG SPLITTER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 16. 1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT @FFlitlE.

JOSEPH WILLIAM FAIRBANKS, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA.

BUNG-SPLITTER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH W. FAIRBANKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burlington, in the county of Des Moines and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful BungSplitter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a tool, by means of which bungs, corks, and other things inside of casks may be reached and the bungs split up, and the corks removed.

The invention relates to a tool provided with an electric light, by means of which the tool may be inserted into a cask through its bung hole and the object to be operated on can be seen, and reached, and operated on, or removed.

The invention consists of a tool of this character, constructed, and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure l is a view in elevation and partly broken away of a tool constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line XX Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation and longitudinal section of the tool. Fig. 4 is a view in perspectire of a pick to be used with the tool.

The tool constructed in accordance with this invention consists of an oblong body portion 1 of wood, or other suitable material and formed with the receptacle 2, having open sides, in which is mounted an electric lamp 3. The body portion 1 is of such a size as to permit it to be passed through the bung hole of a cask. Extending through one end of the body portion 1, is a hole, or passageway 4, opening into thereceptacle 2, and in said passageway 4, is located a wooden plug 5, hazing its upper end flush with one end of the receptacle 2. To the end of the plug 5 is secured a disk of rubber 6, by means of a screw 8 and to the disk 6, is secured by screws the lamp socket S in which the lamp 3 is mounted. A suitable handle 9 is provided which has a tubular portion 10, screwed into one end of a T pipe coupling 11, a tubular extension 12, having one end screwed into the other end of the coupling 11, and its other end in threaded engagement with a socket plug 13, inserted in one end of the passageway 4. Connected with the lamp socket 8 by binding posts 13, are electric wires 14, eX-

Specification of Letters Fatent.

Application filed April 16, 1908.

Patented Dec. 22, 1908.

Serial No. 427,343.

ward end with a threaded socket 16, adapted to receive the threaded shank of a tool, such as the chisel. 17 shown in drawing.

The tool is used as follows. The tubular portion 12 being of a sufiicient length to enable the chisel 17, on the body portion 1, to reach any point in the inside of a cask, the tool is inserted into a cask through its bunghole, and by looking through the latter the electric light will enable the bung or other object to be acted on to be discovered. The chisel then can be moved to the bung, and the latter split by operating the tool. In case it is desired to remove corks, or other objects from the cask, a pick or pointed tool 18, is substituted for the chisel, and the object removed by impaling it with the pick and withdrawing it through the bun'g hole.

Having described the invention, I claim:

1. A tool carrier comprising a body portion having a central recess opening at both sides of the body portion, and an electric lamp housed within the recess.

2. A tool carrier comprising a body portion arranged at one end for the reception of the tool and provided with a transversely dis osed recess opening at both sides of the bot y, and an electric lamp housed within the recess.

3. A tool carrier comprising a body portion arranged at one end for the reception of a tool and provided at the opposite end with a handle, the body of the carrier having a diametrically extending recess, and an electric lamp housed within the said recess.

4. A tool of the class described, comprising a body portion having a centrally arranged recess, a lamp mounted within the recess, and a cutting or splitting tool arranged at the end of said body portion.

5. A splitting tool, consisting of an oblong body formed with an open sided receptacle, having a passage way at one end oommunieating with said receptacle, and a tool socket at the other a detachable instrument mounted in said socket; a lug located in said passageway an electric amp, and socket in said receptacle secured to said plug; an elongated tubular handle detachably connected to said my own, I have hereto afliXed my signature body portion; electric connecting wires leadin the presence of two Witnesses. ing from said lamp socket through the plug and tubular handle and out of the same, and I JOSEPH WILLIAM FAIRBANKS 5 an electric connecting plug attached to said Witnesses:

Wires. B. J. ToBIN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as CONRAD JOHNSON. 

